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#communitygarden

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Helena

Tiny session at one of the local community gardens yesterday - have not had much time to devote to this one lately, fortunately a few other people have been able to do some upkeep. So glad we went heavy on the perennials in the early days, so there was rhubarb and perennial leeks ready for harvest. Fruit trees and fruit bushes are coming on.
#CommunityGarden #PerennialVegetables

A photo of a raised bed with a lid of cut leeks resting on the front edge, a stand of leeks growing in it, a gooseberry bush is behind the leeks and beyond the raised bed are fruit trees. It is a sunny day, the grass is green and there are some clouds in the patch of sky visible in the top right corner of the picture, more dark trees on a hill in the distance are in the top left corner.
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Takako 🐀

Another gardener was asking me about the wasps in/near their plot. They thought it was yellow jackets. Highly unlikely.

Yellow jackets are aggressive assholes, and you won’t be able to casually garden around them.

It’s probably paper wasps — shy, docile pollinators.

But these two wasps look very much alike. Except for the color of the antennae; yellow jackets have black ones, and paper wasps have orange ones and their face has more yellow.

A yellow jacket eating a dab of strawberry jam I put on the rock, so they won’t bother me while I eat my almond-butter and jelly sandwich. Taken on a cool autumn day at the summit of Blue Hill, Boston.
Paper wasp queen perched upside down on her nest in the upside down cup I’ve placed in my community garden plot. She has a mild face.
#wasps#CommunityGarden
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Takako 🐀

Today at the community garden, a fellow gardener told us that she carefully moved the cottontail nest (with babies) in her plot to right outside in a plastic pot. Please pray for the poor cottontail mom who now has to find her babies and move them to a safer place.

We also have a cottontail nest in our plot. We just let them use our plot as a safe nursery. They’ve been nesting in our plot every year, we know the drill. We run a #humaneGarden.
🐰ノ♡🐇🐇🐇

#CommunityGarden#coexist
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foundseed

we’re getting some consistent open garden hours going!
someone will be around on Fridays and Saturdays this month, tending to the garden, working on projects, and happy to answer questions or visit with neighbors. foundseed open garden hours are welcome to anyone, to come by, help out, donate, or sit on our rug with us.
We plan to do a biochar lesson this Saturday, after dusk, so come by if you want to learn! 🌱

blue sky with yellow flowers, white letters: garden hours may Saturdays 5-8pm 4/26, 5/3, 5/17, 5/31 Fridays 1-4pm 5/9, 5/23
#CommunityGarden#GuerrillaGardening#PNWgardening
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